Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Re: IE Bookmarks IFrame src issue.

Can they do that ONLY for IE 6 & 8? Because it doesn't look like they
want to stop caching, they want the bookmark to stop going to the old
iFrame source.

Greg

On Jul 27, 11:04 am, Jeff Chimene <jchim...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 07/27/2010 08:53 AM, Sony wrote:
>
>
>
> > A truly idiotic bunch at Microsoft must have decided this was a great
> > idea:  If you open an IE Bookmark in a text editor you will see it
> > records an IFrame's src at the time the bookmark was created.  When
> > using said bookmark next time around, IE makes a request of the
> > IFrame's src without even checking if the src for that IFrame has
> > changed in the newly requested page && so if and only if the
> > previously recorded src fails to load (either from cache or from
> > server) does it try loading the new src that the IFrame tag now
> > carries.
>
> > This is actually a major problem for our GWT web-app - as we release
> > every quarter and we employ GWT's 'perfect caching' strategy i.e.
> > cache policy of forever for all *.cache.* files.  Both IE6 & IE8 end
> > up requesting and then loading from cache the older version of our
> > cache.html resulting in various incompatibility exceptions.  For now
> > we just let users know to delete the bookmark and recreate it in these
> > types of situations.
>
> > Any help in fixing this issue would be appreciated.  I've tried
> > replacing the iframe-linker with the cross-site linker which works but
> > then code-splitting is not supported (which we rely on heavily).
>
> > Thanks much
> > Sony
>
> You can set the cache properties using .htaccess or, if you control the
> httpd server, in that software's domain settings.

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